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Steven Schwartz

Unis must be run like a business, whether academics like it or not

Staff unions are mobilising, newspapers are lamenting, and politicians are hand-wringing, but the arithmetic is unforgiving.

Clark Kerr, the renowned president of the University of California, once joked that a university is “a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over car parking”.

Apart from their title, the professor of neurosurgery has little in common with the professor of cultural studies.

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Emeritus Professor Steven Schwartz is a former vice chancellor of Murdoch, Macquarie and Brunel Universities.

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